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Join us for a night of discovery: explore groundbreaking ideas, network with industry leader, and find your next big opportunity at Pitch Night!

Pitch night is where ideas take flight! Join us and:

👀 Witness 10 - 12 innovative teams unleash their ground breaking ideas

🌏 Network with industry leader and investors

🤯 Link up with like minded entrepreneurs and explore new ideas

📅 Date: 19th April 2024
⌚️ Time: 6pm - 9:30pm
📌 Location: To be revealed

RSVP your audience spot here! https://forms.office.com/r/evfaic88jt

🌍 Discover Global Startup Horizons with N-Connect #3! 🌍

🗓️ Date and Time: March 20th (Wednesday), 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

🏠 Venue: Medicine + Science Library Level 1 Collab Spaces

🎙️ Event: N-Connect #3: Startup Horizons - Global Perspectives by N-House

👨‍💼 Event Description: Join us for an insightful session where NOC inbounds students from 8 countries will share their experiences and insights into the startup ecosystems of their respective countries. Gain invaluable perspectives on global innovation trends, networking opportunities, and the challenges and opportunities of launching a venture abroad.

🔍 Event Highlights:
Global Insights: Gain firsthand knowledge from students representing 8 diverse countries.
Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded individuals and expand your international network.
Startup Challenges: Learn about the unique challenges and opportunities of starting a venture abroad.

🔗 Sign Up: https://forms.office.com/r/Tt7QE8UDey

📅 Sign-Up Deadline: March 19th

✨ Join us for an engaging and informative evening filled with global perspectives on startup ecosystems! Secure your spot now! ✨

🌍 Discover Global Startup Horizons with N-Connect #3! 🌍

🗓️ Date and Time: March 20th (Wednesday), 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

🏠 Venue: Medicine + Science Library Level 1 Collab Spaces

🎙️ Event: N-Connect #3: Startup Horizons - Global Perspectives by N-House

👨‍💼 Event Description: Join us for an insightful session where NOC inbounds students from 8 countries will share their experiences and insights into the startup ecosystems of their respective countries. Gain invaluable perspectives on global innovation trends, networking opportunities, and the challenges and opportunities of launching a venture abroad.

🔍 Event Highlights:
Global Insights: Gain firsthand knowledge from students representing 8 diverse countries.
Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded individuals and expand your international network.
Startup Challenges: Learn about the unique challenges and opportunities of starting a venture abroad.

🔗 Sign Up: https://forms.office.com/r/Tt7QE8UDey

📅 Sign-Up Deadline: March 19th 2024

✨ Join us for an engaging and informative evening filled with global perspectives on startup ecosystems! Secure your spot now! ✨

🚀 Calling All NUS Start-ups! 🚀

Announcing N-Acceler8 - Your Gateway to Success!

👨‍🏫 Attention NUS Start-ups!

Get ready to elevate your start-up journey with N-Acceler8, our flagship accelerator program designed to propel your venture to greater heights! 🌟

🌟 What to Expect:
Engage with a fresh set of seasoned mentors and speakers who will provide invaluable guidance tailored to your start-up's progression within Singapore's vibrant start-up ecosystem. 💡

🚀 Key Benefits:

Personalized Guidance: Receive practical and insightful knowledge customized to your start-up's needs.
Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and industry experts.

📅 Event Details:
Registration Deadline: February 4, 2024

💎 Sign Up Now:
Don't miss out on this opportunity to accelerate your start-up's growth! Register individually or as a group (note that finding a group is required by the second session) via the link:

http://tinyurl.com/N-Acceler8

Seize this chance to propel your start-up toward success! 🚀

Do reach out to Sindhu () for any queries regarding N-Acceler8!

How is it like working with your committee for Pitch Night, one of the flagship events of the semester for N-House, and how has the committee supported you on this?

Working with my committee was a breeze as N House brings together talented individuals who are passionate and highly adept in their work. It also helped that I was in charge of last semester's Pitch Night and have been through the NOC program. This helped build my networks within ASEAN's startup ecosystem and imparted valuable skills like sales funnel strategies which were beneficial in our outreach to sponsors and judges.
A bit about myself: I used to be a bartender, now I enjoy slinging drinks and creating tasty concoctions for my loved ones . I also enjoy hitting the gym and boxing

Could you introduce your interest group and share what are the exciting activities that you have organized? and what is your most memorable experience in one of the events?

At N-House we have a range of interest groups for our residents to participate in! From Morning Coffee ☕️ to weekly skate 🛹sessions at west coast park, N-House has it all.... like literally.... we have an interest group just to talk about crypto 🪙or a foodie 🍜 group to go on food hunts 🤩 together!

Some exciting activities are like our BELLY BURNERS (running 🏃‍♂️ interest group) having a 100km cumulative goal to run together or N-Hikes going for a hike up Mount 🗻 Faber :) The n-Gym group has bufflords 💪 there as well but they're all super friendly and supportive

My most memorable experience would be going to n-gym.... because I always feel awkward in the gym 🏋️ and don't really know what to do but everyone is really kind and these KINGSSSS 👑 will help me change my weights for me ^_^ LOL ok besides that every experience is a mem

What has N-house provided you with learning opportunities? How have interacting with N-House residents/startups been like for you?

N-House provided me with various learning opportunities. In my case I will say they were three main learning channels. 1. Wicked Wednesday where I was able to learn more about entrepreneurship (Buz Models, Digital Marketing, pitching, successful founders,etc). 2. N-Crypto, where I learnt about cryptocurrencies,NFTs, DeFi and blockchain related topics. 3. Finally, I found the best learning opportunity in the n-house members. I was able to learn so much from each person I met.

It has been an amazing and truly enriching experience. My interactions range from eating tacos in a Mexican restaurant with n-house members to discussing buz ideas 💡 for the next 🦄 start-up. People pitch ideas to me everywhere, in the commhall, the bus, and even in the gym🤣

How do you feel about the entire journey during the preparation for pitch night? How has the community in N-house and perhaps NCSG helped you and motivated you to build your startup idea?

1. When I signed up for pitch night I was excited to have an opportunity to explore business pitching. During the entire planning process, it was definitely very stressful. Although the results were not in my team’s favour, we have learnt a lot from the feedback given and will continue to work on our idea!

2. The people in n house and my batch are definitely very encouraging and very willing to share our startup ideas and give each other feedback. This really gave me a safe space to explore entrepreneurship as well as make connections with so many wonderful aspiring entrepreneurs!

Can you tell us a story of your most unique moment in N-House? The moment when you realised N-House is the community for you?

It has not happened yet but it is definitely going to be the Pizza Party I am going to host with other N-House mates. Having the privilege to feed so many people of vastly different cultures and tastes and preferences, at sunset hour, will not only be a rewarding experience but may also inspire me to create new flavours and concoctions as a pizza chef.

It was the first ever supper I had with my tribemates. The conversation centred around each one of my tribemates' entrepreneurial ambition and ideas were so refreshing and inspiring. This was the exact moment I realised there will be no other community like N-House.

What is one thing/experience that attracted you to join N-house and continue staying here as the RA?

As a final semester student, it was a (really) belated sense of belonging to the school that drove my decision to stay at N-House as a resident assistant (RA). Call it cliche, but i wanted to live my final months as a student on “carpe diem” mode and experience the N-House life to its fullest. I was fortunate to have the chance to do so as an RA even though I was a first time resident, and I thoroughly enjoyed the entire entrepreneurial residential life that N-House has to offer. Throughout these couple of months, I not only had the chance to bond with my tribe members, fellow RAs but also gain support and invaluable guidance from the helpful staff in planning events (shoutout to Hussein, Siti and Amir!!) ✨☺️ it has been a helluva ride - cheers to N-House!

How is your experience as a mentor in N-House? Can you share one of the most interesting startups from the N-House resident?

1. Being my first semester as the RAD for NHouse, the experience has been incredibly heartwarming, especially seeing the students grow and come up with amazing ideas in both the N-Novate challenge and Pitch Night. Looking forward to the next semester!

2. Mechie D's has to be the one that caught my eye the most. I thought it was incredibly innovative to utilize used face masks for vacuums, and the fact that they had a working prototype just made it all. the more impressive.

What’s the best thing about being an N-House RA? Highlight a challenge that helped you grow as an RA!

The best thing about being an RA is definitely meeting like-minded people! N-House allowed me to work in amazingly diverse settings and allowed me to forge meaningful connections with so many people. Having the opportunity to organise various Wicked Wednesday including Pitch Night has also deepen my understanding of what entrepreneurship really is. Really enjoyed the experience, no regrets 😊

One challenge is definitely stepping out of my comfort zone, as someone new in the position, I am unfamiliar with many things at the start, but with the friendly residents and all the other lovely RAs, I adapted fast and loved the experience!

Throwback to our first ever N-novate Challenge in N-House this semester! 🥳🥳

Thank you everyone for attending the event, and thank you to all participating teams, judges (Christina Lee, Sai Surya and Ho Yuen Ping), mentors (Bernice Tan, Russ Neu and Amir Nivy), Guest of Honor (Brian Koh) and organising team for the hard work put in!!

And congratulations to the winning teams - Mechie D's, the moonbeam co. and Ups Cycling 🎉🎊

Want to catch up on the event? 🧐 Do head over to our Facebook event page for the live recap or read up more on our Medium! (Links in bio)

In our last Wicked Wednesday of the semester, like to thank Frank Lee (Managing Director of TechJDI), Leon Qiu (Ex- CEO of Get All Myanmar Co and Founder of Daung Capital) and Hussein Sulaiman (Programme Head, BLOCK71 Indonesia, NUS Enterprise) for their valuable sharing on navigating Asian Markets, as well as Hans for moderating the session. It was a really engaging discussion, one that will be very useful when starting out our own startups within the region 🦄.

We would also like to thank all the RAs, Subcomm Members for organizing this workshop and shout out to all aspiring N-trepreneurs who came down made and this semester's event such an engaging and eventful session. ✨✨

🎤 N-House Flagship event: Pitch Night 🎤

Thank you to everyone that has joined us for Pitch Night this semester, be it in person at iCube or online through Facebook Live!

Congratulations to our winners: Skittle for emerging as the champion and walking away with the N-House-Odyssey Grant, and to the 3 teams (Minatic, Loyal.t and Medipal) who won an greenlane opportunity to pitch to NUS Enterprise for a $10K NUS Venture Initiation Programme (VIP) Grant 🎉🎊

We would like to express our thanks to the amazing panel of judges -- Tiang Lim Foo (Co-Founder and Partner of Forge Ventures), Mohan Belani (Co-Founder and CEO of e27) and Kelly Choo (Founding Partner of True Global Ventures)! ✨ We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors for the event, Dedoco and Hona. 🙏🏻

The event would not have been possible without our N-House organising team, participating teams, and support from our residents! ✨ We would like to extend our best wishes to all participating teams and hoped that the mentorship journey leading to the Pitch Night event had been beneficial for all. Also, thank you to our Resident Mentor Amir for his mentorship and guidance provided to the participants.

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This semester's Pitch Night had truly been a showcase of various innovative pitches and we would love to extend such entrepreneurial spirit to everyone. Missed out on the event? Do head over to our Facebook to catch up on the amazing pitches by our participating teams!

See you all again at our next Pitch Night! 🥳

As we are nearing the end of the semester, we would like to take this opportunity to thank Hussein Sulaiman (BLOCK71 Indonesia) for the Pitch Masterclass session back in Week 8. Hope that the tips shared on how to nail the elevator pitch had been beneficial for everyone, especially the teams that had pitched at our Pitch Night this Wednesday! 💫 And THANK YOU, fellow aspiring N-trepreneurs, for tuning in and supporting the PITCH MASTERCLASS Workshop! 🗣

SEE YOU AT THE LAST WICKED WEDNESDAY OF THE SEMESTER NEXT WEEK!!! 👋

Thank you so much for Jason Teo (Endowus) and Thaddeus Han who have shared their experiences! ✨ And THANK YOU, fellow aspiring N-trepreneurs, for tuning in and supporting the Digital Marketing Workshop! 💻

SEE YOU IN THE NEXT WICKED WEDNESDAY!!! 👋

Circular Economy N-novate Challenge 🍏

You know what they say....One person's trash 🗑 is another person's treasure 💰 Do you have an idea to make one's industry output another's input? Or an idea to close the loop of waste generation?💡

The ✨Circular Economy N-novate Challenge✨ is looking for INNOVATORS to come up with sustainable solutions to CLOSE THE LOOP 🔁 and creatively reduce the waste generated in different industries! The time to transform our Economy is now! Be a part of building a more Sustainable & Circular economy as we help you to fast track your ideas.🌱➡️🌳

Date: 16 Feb (Kickoff Day) - 16 Mar (Demo Day)
Time: 7:30PM - 9:30PM (both days)

As a team of 3-5, brainstorm and build a solution to reduce waste generation by industries by closing the loop and stand to win access to mentorship by SDG OpenHack 2022 and seed funding opportunities by NUS Enterprise!!! 🥳🥳

Sign up @ bit.ly/nnovate

Wanna find out more about Circular Economy? Attend our Workshop and Kickoff Day on 16 Feb✨ meet startup founders in this space and learn from environmental communicator Woo Qiyun!

🚨 DON'T MISS OUT: Subscribe to the N-NOVATION Telegram Channel for a series of workshops and personal mentorship sessions throughout the month: https://t.me/Nnovate

Thank you to all the attendees of Wicked Wednesday Week 3 : AMA with Singapore Founders & Alumni! 🙏🏻

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the speakers, Siddarth Jadhav from Polybee, Viknish Krishnan-Kutty from Cellivate Technologies, and Daryl Lim from Augmentus for sharing more about their respective industries and addressing all the questions about their inspirations, setbacks and achievements building their startups.

Our N-House attendees definitely learned a lot about the problems startups may face in its early stages and apply them in their own ventures. We look forward to seeing you next Wicked Wednesday series!!! 💡🥳💡🥳

N-HOUSE AY2021/22 SEM 2 🏡 Stay tuned for more events lined up this semester!! 🤩

“I’m really grateful for N House because I was able to get the chance to talk to a lot of current NOC students and NOC alumni, which gave me a great insight into the benefits of the program and what I can take away from it.

I enjoy attending N House events, because I get to talk to like-minded people in an informal setting, so I don’t just get to know them as entrepreneurs, but individuals as well.

I really enjoyed learning about N House startups from a variety of different fields and seeing them pitch during Pitch Night, especially learning from how they answered challenging questions from VCs and startup founders.”

- Amelia, Friends of NOC

“Working with the Pitch Night Committee was a fun and fulfilling one.

It was definitely not without its challenges but I am thankful to Sarah and Austin for their guidance as well as having unwavering support from Wei Shen and Hans as well. Pitch night would definitely not have been possible if not for their support.

All the comm members also pulled their weight and completed their respective responsibilities with haste and for that I am thankful.

Pitch Night was far from perfect but I hope that everyone still had an enjoyable time and everyone learned more from all the amazing esteemed judges that we had present during Pitch Night.

Looking forward to even better Pitch Night events in the future!”

- Jer Shun, Organising Committee for Pitch Night 2021

“I think one of the best things about being an N-House RA is the idea that you can discover about yourself in terms of your strengths and weaknesses and things like that.

One thing that I really learnt is, having people around me that can really support me in many of my challenges. I never understood that this was something that happened and I really am very grateful for my tribe members for always being there to support me as a person.

One challenge is definitely having to create that supportive environment in the first place. It is often very easy for all of us to get caught up in our priorities and we don’t, at some points of time, put this first. I’m very happy that I am able to create that environment where people are able to support and be grateful for one another.”

- Cach, the Resident Assistant

“I chose to stay in N-house because of the people, the conversations we had. I think here in N-house we have a common interest in the startup ecosystem, whether it is in Singapore, Southeast Asia or around the world.

We all come from different backgrounds. Residents from different countries and residents with their own start ups. And we all have different views because some of us have gone to different NOC locations, for those of us who went overseas.

It is always interesting to listen to other people’s stories and experiences. You gain fresh ideas and fresh perspectives and you see things in new ways you’ve never thought of before.

I think staying in N-house is a constant process of learning something new from the stories that others have shared and that is what I enjoy most about staying in N-house.”

- Daniel, NOC Alumni

“One thing that attracted me to join N-house and continue staying here is definitely the community.

I may not be the most active resident in N-house, but I definitely do enjoy going down to Wicked Wednesdays, or joining in the activities when I can, and meeting new faces or just catching up with some familiar faces and friends to keep in touch with the startup community.

That is the reason I continued staying in N-house.”

- Nicole, NOC Alumni

“Firstly, I think it was a surprise really as there were several teams with very interesting and viable ideas. So, when the second and third place were announced, I thought we didn’t make it.

Secondly, it feels good as well as it felt like our effort paid off – my cofounder and my efforts. We were both quite excited since it was our fist time pitching to a larger audience. Most importantly, we are very happy that the problem that we aim to solve resonated with people and is a problem that is worth solving.

Being around like-minded folks who are interested in entrepreneurship really helped. I think N-house is probably the place that is most saturated with the most number of aspiring entrepreneurs in NUS. So, you can really get feedback from your peers very easily or even Amir, who is our resident mentor. I, myself, approached several people in N-house for feedback before the pitch and refined our deck several times.”

- Mervin, Founder of Homematch

“I would say that it's more of the accumulated moments in N-House that made me see it as the community for me.

This includes all the chats over meals, as well as events that we had on top of those organised by the N-House team -- camping at WCP, and night cycling to the east!

Through these small moments, I have gotten to know my peers better, forge new friendships and occasionally spark a conversion about entrepreneurship.

What is great about N-House would be the freedom to create our own interest groups, where the weekly badminton sessions are definitely one of the highlights this semester as I had the opportunity to meet new friends of common interest across the 2 halls!”

- Michelle, Member of N-House Badminton Interest Group

“I remember at the start of the semester, in order to get everyone to know each other better, we organised an event for residents to share about their ideas or start-ups that they were currently working on.

At first, I was afraid that no one was going to step up to share, but on the event day, I saw a lot of talents in N-house who are currently working on many interesting start-up ideas, and these people are passionate and serious about what they are doing.

I guess you could say that that event was very memorable for me, not because of the event's planning process, but because of the people of N-house. I was motivated to try something new, to talk to them about start-ups.

I feel that I finally found a group of like-minded students to work on something big together. That was my biggest takeaway from N-house.”

-- Chris, the Resident Assistant